The Latin clerk : the life, work, and travels of Adrian Fortescue /

This biography of Adrian Fortescue presents an insightful look at a man, now perceived as an icon of Catholic traditionalism, facing a crisis of conscience over his affiliation with Liberal Catholicism and objections towards the intellectual conservatism of the papacy. The Latin Clerk thus reveals a...

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Main Author: Nichols, Aidan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Lutterworth Press, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Background and boyhood
  • The formative years
  • Ordination and first steps in priesthood
  • The Levantine grand tour (1906-7) and the Greek fathers
  • Studies of the Eastern churches, far and near
  • Letchworth and beyond
  • The theory of the liturgy: encyclopaedias, and the Mass
  • The practice of the liturgy: Rivalis Villa, the ceremonial and the chant
  • Anglo-Roman debates
  • Liberal Catholicism, Catholic modernism and the posthumous Boethius.